After First Seat Win, Does Australia Finally Have an Australian Party?

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The rise of Australia’s One Nation party has culminated in the party’s first lower House seat win in the national parliament. The party emerged in response to the disenfranchisement with the major political parties, left and right, by “average” Australians.

The party is being watched by Canadian and U.S. citizens who feel similarly about their political situation. Along with the UK’s Restore Britian, One Nation is providing a blueprint, in part, for what might be a similar party in America in the near future.

Australia’s right-wing One Nation party vows to fight mass migration after winning first lower house seat– japantoday.com
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Australia’s right-wing populist One Nation party, which wants to emulate U.S. President Donald ‌Trump’s aggressive deportations, vowed to focus on ending mass migration, after winning its first seat in the country’s lower house.

Saturday’s by-election win ‌by farmer David Farley in the rural ⁠seat of Farrer, some 550 km south of ⁠Sydney, does not affect the majority of center-left ‌Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as the seat was previously held ⁠by a member ⁠of the Liberals, the biggest conservative group.

But it is a significant advance for One Nation, which has four Senate seats. The party is polling second ⁠this year to Albanese’s Labor Party in opinion ⁠surveys, ahead of the mainstream ‌conservative coalition. One Nation’s leader, Senator Pauline Hanson, has higher approval ratings than Albanese or the Liberal leader.